Having come to Tokyo to rely on her older sister and her husband, Mariko makes a living by working part-time at a classic movie theater. She has had feelings for her brother-in-law Kenji since high school. Even though she knows that he is her sister Noriko's boyfriend, she dreams that one day he will realize her love and their love will be reciprocated. In a corner of the projection room, Mariko dozes off, listening to the sounds of the machinery...
Saki Okuda
Mariko Natsukawa
Ayako Kanô
Noriko Harada
Yuzu Hoshino
Haruka
Tomohiro Okada
Kenji Harada
Nao Sakaki
Haruki Konno
Shigeru Aikawa
Rika
Tamako Sarada
Shimoda
Yuya Ishikawa
Kimura
Masahiko Shiraishi
Tsukada
Having come to Tokyo to rely on her older sister and her husband, Mariko makes a living by working part-time at a classic movie theater. She has had feelings for her brother-in-law Kenji since high school. Even though she knows that he is her sister Noriko's boyfriend, she dreams that one day he will realize her love and their love will be reciprocated. In a corner of the projection room, Mariko dozes off, listening to the sounds of the machinery...
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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